Muhammad Ali on clever jabs

I’m so fast that, last night, I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

Winston Churchill1874–1965

Thus far, the reputed idiot Bush has graduated from Yale and Harvard, made a stack of cash in the oil industry, become the first consecutive-term governor of Texas, defeated a dual-term VP for the presidency, and led his party to [November 5th’s] extraordinary triumphs. Let his opponents keep calling him stupid; if they do, within five years Bush will be King of England, the Pope, and world Formula One motor racing champion.

Tim Blairborn 1965

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I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Mark Twain1835–1910